🧵 this is really fun. today i decided to start documenting and preserving the Bell Canada AlexTel terminal - the canadian equivalent of the beloved Minitel videotex service.
this little wonderful CRT terminal machine (with 9600 baud modem!) has very little historical or technical information out there, and it's time to fix that.
#alextel #minitel #bbs
vga256
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2025-01-24 19:08:19 UTC
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2025-01-24 19:08:19 UTCEvent JSON
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